First Nations sue Ottawa for failure to protect oil, gas rig First Nations have launched a class-action lawsuit against the federal government claiming they are owed an estimated $3-billion because the agency responsible for protecting their oil-and-gas rights has, for decades, allowed those resources to be drained away without demanding that indigenous communities be compensated.
A statement of claim was filed in the Federal Court late Monday afternoon by the Poundmaker Cree Nation and the Onion Lake Cree Nation on behalf of the roughly 70 First Nations that have had their oil-and-gas reserves managed by Indian Oil and Gas Canada (IOGC).
The potentially costly suit comes at a time when the Liberal government, which is facing a ballooning deficit, is promising to reset the relationship with Canada’s indigenous peoples and to find ways to increase the revenues of First Natio
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